Question

What does the first amendment mean to you?

Answer 1

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Answer 2

@Vocaloid @Ultrilliam

Answer 3

@Elsa213

Answer 4

@dude

Answer 5

Lets break it up into parts:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion"
Do you understand what this is trying to say?

Answer 6

That uhh they do not establish one religion over one or one religion out of all of them?

Answer 7

Sort of,
"Congress shall make no law"
So this part that congress cannot make any law

"respecting an establishment of religion"
Which says: that respects any kind of religion

Answer 8

ok so next line

Answer 9

\(\color{green}{"or~prohibiting~the~free~exercise~thereof"}\)
Do you know what this tries to say?

Answer 10

no

Answer 11

What word confuses you in that sentence?

Answer 12

ensuring that there is no prohibition on the free exercise of religion

Answer 13

Yes, that looks right

Answer 14

thereof can also mean "which concerns"
Which leads us to line 3

Answer 15

or anything less than freedom of speech?

Answer 16

Line 2 has a ";" which means its about to include a list of items

Answer 17

"or abridging the freedom of speech"
Abridging means to not limit